Author: Joseph CornellPublisher: Dawn PublicationsISBN: 1584694653Size: 10.67 MBFormat: PDF, ePubView: 1243DownloadRead Online
This is THE BEST John Muir biography for children, says Jill Harcke, co-producer of the John Muir Tribute CD. Written mostly in the words of Muir, it brims with his spirit and adventures.

Author: Donald WorsterPublisher: Oxford University PressISBN: 9780199721733Size: 77.69 MBFormat: PDF, ePub, DocsView: 1296DownloadRead Online
Yet the book also describes a Muir who was a successful fruit-grower, a talented scientist and world-traveler, a doting father and husband, a self-made man of wealth and political influence.

Author: John MuirPublisher: Library of AmericaISBN: 1598533428Size: 72.11 MBFormat: PDF, ePub, MobiView: 3580DownloadRead Online
Rounding out the volume is a rich selection of essays—including "Yosemite Glaciers," "God's First Temples," "Snow-Storm on Mount Shasta," "The American Forests," and the late appeal "Save the Redwoods"—highlighting various aspects of ...

Author: John MuirPublisher: Houghton Mifflin HarcourtISBN: 9780547527376Size: 26.21 MBFormat: PDF, KindleView: 907DownloadRead Online
This book is being published in collaboration with Yosemite Conservancy and, for each copy sold, Scot Miller is making a donation to Yosemite Conservancy. My First Summer in the Sierra won the National Outdoor Book Award.

Author: John MuirPublisher: The Floating PressISBN: 1775457338Size: 52.73 MBFormat: PDF, KindleView: 1203DownloadRead Online
This engaging autobiography tells the tale of how Muir made his way to the United States to find his true calling.

Author: Linnie Marsh WolfePublisher: Univ of Wisconsin PressISBN: 9780299186340Size: 47.78 MBFormat: PDF, KindleView: 5117DownloadRead Online
This book, originally published in 1945 and based in large part on Wolfe's personal interviews with people who knew and worked with Muir, is one that could never be written again. It is, and will remain, the standard Muir biography.

Author: Alaska HultsPublisher: Creative Teaching PressISBN: 1591987873Size: 27.24 MBFormat: PDF, ePubView: 5549DownloadRead Online
Muir's contribution to science and the world is through his work as a naturalist
and writer. He was the driving force behind conservationism at the time and is
largely considered the “father” of the national park system. Joseph Cornell, in his
award- winning book John Muir:My Life with Nature (Dawn Publishing), shares
this story: Perhaps the greatest (and shortest!) tribute ever given to John Muir was
by Reinhold Messner, a German mountaineer. Messner and an American were
climbing ...